Modern Warfare fans send Activision \u201cclear\u201d warning about supply drops ActivisionModern Warfare fans are clearly concerned about Activision\u2019s influence on the upcoming title, prompting the community to issue a warning to the publishers about future microtransactions through supply drops. The Call of Duty franchise, as legendary as it is, has been marred in recent titles by questionable microtransaction structures that go beyond awarding players with cosmetics or the like. Players feel like the competitive integrity in previous titles like Black Ops 4 was compromised when the game started to lock \u201cstat-boosted weapons or stat-boosting modifiers\u201d behind monetization mechanics. This resulted in a battlefield that felt skewed toward people who paid for better equipment as opposed to having an equal and fair arsenal among all players. With word that Infinity Ward has changed course from Modern Warfare\u2019s \u201cplayer-first system\u201d to one that will have weapons available to be earned in Supply Drops, the community are sounding the alarms to let the devs know that isn\u2019t going to help the game long term. \u201cActivi$ion needs to understand that the community outrage was never about gambling mechanics (loot boxes) or MTXs (microtransactions) as a concept,\u201d Reddit user \u2018HellcatJoker\u2019 said. \u201c\u2026 The outrage is about locking stat-boosted weapons or stat-boosting modifiers behind the slot machine.\u201d Clarifying their position, the community are fine with microtransactions in theory, just so long as they don\u2019t provide any player a leg up on their opponents. The user explains that \u201call players want is a guarantee from Activision that the MTX system\u2026 restricts \u2018rewards\u2019 to COSMETIC ONLY ITEMS.\u201d Customization in Call of Duty games have exploded in popularity due to sprays, emotes, weapon skins, stickers, and more. While the community would prefer the devs stick to the realism that Modern Warfare wants to deliver on when considering cosmetics, there are loads of options to explore when supporting the game post-launch. But they agree that what\u2019s \u201cunacceptable is creating special, exotic, one-hit kill weapons with a .001% drop rate and hiding them in the MTX lottery.\u201d Monetization practices \u201cruined\u201d previous Call of Duty entries for a lot of fans, and a bit of compromise from both publishers as well as fans is all it would take to keep Modern Warfare thriving after its October 25 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Modern Warfare fans send Activision \u201cclear\u201d warning about supply drops ActivisionModern Warfare fans are clearly concerned about Activision\u2019s influence on the upcoming title, prompting the community to issue a warning to the publishers about future microtransactions through supply drops. The Call of Duty franchise, as legendary as it is, has been marred in recent titles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}